Junk Mail Builds Revenue For USPS

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Posted: 8:40 AM Nov 26, 2007
Last Updated: 8:40 AM Nov 26, 2007

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You may call all those credit card applications and ads you get in the mail junk, but the United States Post Office says that isn't the case.

Postal workers say during the Christmas season the United States Post Office will make about 58-million dollars, and nearly half of that revenue will come from bulk business mail.

But if you just can't stand all the mailbox clutter they say you can just send it back.

“They tear the item off and say ‘please do not send that to me’ and the stick it in the return business reply envelope and the customer pays 78 cents to get it back,” says Post Master Ray Lackey.

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Posted by: Postal Worker Location: NY on Nov 27, 2007 at 12:51 AM
It's so sad that the P.O.now caters to the junk mailers giving them huge discounts and charging the everyday consumer the high rates. As employees we don't even get a discount. USPS no longer cares aboiut the service all they care about is the money. Write your congressmen and complain. Get your friends to write and complain. USPS is supposed to be a universal service to all and yes each person, company, mailer should have to pay the same price-universal pricing!!!

Posted by: Jack Location: Harlan on Nov 26, 2007 at 06:11 PM
I think the tax payers need to petition to eliminate the U.S Postal service. We live in a capitalist society so let UPS/Fedx and other's compete instead of government waste jobs.

Posted by: Jack Hurt Location: Hindman, Ky. on Nov 26, 2007 at 04:27 PM
Trash is the best place for it.

Posted by: James on Nov 26, 2007 at 01:49 PM
If the post office is making so much money off the junk mail then why do they keep rainsing the price of stamps. Why don't they make these junk mail people pay the same rate I have to pay. They would know what big bucks is then.

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